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.overheated furnace, his three fai-jestly wangled from the king by
Bob Nicodemus, employed by ;es at Humboldt St
rhful Hebrew slaves, who dared the lords of the Medes and Per- c K nk a* »'lam-’th Falls, was an after spending East
! oppose his decree in the sacred sians. See Daniel chapter«. Media Easter visitor of his parents. Mr. parents. Mr. and
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right of Freedom of Worship. See Persia ended its career on the and Mrs. M. E. Nicodemus.
By Barton W Marth
bott, and brother, y*
; plains of Arbela in 338 B. C., at
Daniel fourth chapter.
Bob Abbott returned, to Ar See Pete for your «■«
In the past we have had oc- The last night of the kingdom. »!>*■* time Alexander of Greece. cata. Monday, to resume his stud- ance
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cuion to mention more or less ano also of its king and lords was with and army of only 49,000 men
casion to mention, more or less
■ rtnJnkenn,.ss ;lnd debauch-1 utterly destroyed the Persian
incidentially, the four world pow-' sp^nt in -------
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king along with his army of more
e-s, Babylon. Media-Persia, Rome in ,he Palace of the king. It w’as than
a million soldiers.
at
that
time
that
the
hand
of
a
and Greece, all of whom are prom
Alexander
ruled over an undiv-
His-'
man
came
out
of
the
shroud
of
inently set forth in Divine
t< v and Prophecy. Now we de- darkness and wrote on the wall ided Greece for eight years, when
* i«• to examine them somewhat over against the candlestick the he died in a drunken spree, at
p o r e c lo s e " firm m thT hop ^rm ge words. "MEME. MENE. the age of thirty-two. He willed
■hat we will discover facts that TEKEL, UPHARSIN; which be- his great empire to the strong-
i iay prove helpful to some in this ing interpreted, reads, "God hath est, and it was divided between
numbered thy kingdom and fin- his four leading generals. In Scri-
< ur time.
ished it. Thou art weighed in the ptural symbols Greece is desig-
Babylon 1 •
s berinnintrs in ha
lances. and art found wanting.' rated as the belley and thighs
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the year 60S B. C. when Nebuch-
kingdom is divided and given of brass, in Daniel second chap.,
adnezzar its “irst independent to the Mides and Persians.” The The leopard beast of Daniel 7:6,
I ng. ascen ’ the throne. This ¡drunken king and his thousand and the he goat with the notable
power is symbolized in the Bible drunken birds were that fateful h >rn between his eyes of Daniel
in various wavs It is called "A
Head of Gold,” "ALion withEag ' night slain in the palace, and Dar- 8 5. The notable horn, designates,
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let Wing*,” "The glory of king ius the Mede took the kingdom. Alexander, the first king. The p*-
dom*,” "The beauty of the Chal Thus ended the Glory of King life of this w’orld power was 170
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dee* ereellency," and that it ‘shall doms. The beauty of the Chaldees years. It was conquered by Rome
excellency.
Read
Daniel
5th
chap,
in
the
year
168
B.
C.
45-,
55-, 65-, and 901b. Roofing
be a* when God overthrew Sodom
Rome now swings into power,
and Gomorah” Daniel 2:38; 7:4; The date is 538 B. C.
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The comparative brief period of world significance, and is sym-
and Isaiah 13: 19.
of
207
years
was
allotted
to
the
bolized
in
the
Bible
by
the
legs!
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During its short life of t only
seventy year« it ascended to great succeeding kingdom, Media-Per-| of iron and the feet part of iron
34”,
39” and 44” Heatilator units
heights cd rardure add display sia- This kingdom is symbolized, and part of clay which would not
of power, exere sed to the utter- *n Prophecy as "The breast and hold together as noted in the sec
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most its vicious will to persecute arrns of silver” Daniel 2:32, "The ond chapter of Daniel; also as in
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and destroy nil who dared oppose learlike beast." Daniel 7:5, and the fourth, and entirely non-des-
its imperii derree, to in the end! '‘Th‘, ram with two horns” Daniel J cript beast of Daniel 7th chapter.
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bauchery and shame. It was in It was under this kingdom that after the ascendency of Rome to
the 28th year of hi.1 reign that the decree, condemning Daniel to world position it maintained a
Nebuchadnezzar cast into the be fed to the lions, was dishon- democratic form of government,
similar in some respects to that
of the United States. During that
j period it became wealthy, arro-
gant and proud. Vicious forms
■ of corruption developed. Money
getting became the ruling passion
of all, from the highest dema
gogue in the senate to the lowliest
Will have, by the end of the
, menial on the street.
week, some "Cuban Heel”
It is said of the early Romans
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: that, "they possessed the faculty
of self-government beyond any
people of whom we have histor
ical knowledge, with the sole ex
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ception of the Anglo-Saxons; and1
j by virtue of this, in the very nat-
of Accessories!
| ure of the case, they became the
■ most powerful nation of all an
cient tim es” Great Empires of
j Prophecy, page250.
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I heir poet Juvenal wrote - -
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j Luxury came on more cruel than
B. .1. Gould
Peggy Gould |j tour arms and avenged the van
quished world with its charms.”
And in the train of luxury’ came
vice. "There was now gluttony
and drunkenness and debauch-
¡ery hitherto unknown. Most of
the Romans lived in strange dis-!
ipation. The young allow them
selves to be carried away in the!
most shameful excesses. 'They
are given to shows, to feasts, to
luxury and disorder of every
kind, and vices hitherto unknown’
in Rome now become naturalized '
<r
History of Rome by Duray. !
Money was the one thought,
from the highest senator to the !
poorest wretch who sold his vote
in the t omitia. For money jud
ges gave unjust decrees, for mon
dinners and short orders
ey juries gave unjust verdicts " i
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the shadows of Rome's dying free
dom a Caesar awaited the call
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, < . 108 years after the Roman 1 ’
legions had conguered Greece I
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< r l he fires of freedom had died
,up«n their altars The heart and
*111 Of a great nation had been
by SHf indul^nce. and
Rome, the great Iron Kingdom
d e l iv e r e d
| h gan making ready for the most
■ luman and unjust spectacle of!
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